| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: besought him in Christ's name. When Father Sergius assured her
that only God could heal the sick, she replied that she only
wanted him to lay his hands on the boy and pray for him. Father
Sergius refused and returned to his cell. But next day (it was
in autumn and the nights were already cold) on going out for
water he saw the same mother with her son, a pale boy of
fourteen, and was met by the same petition.
He remembered the parable of the unjust judge, and though he had
previously felt sure that he ought to refuse, he now began to
hesitate and, having hesitated, took to prayer and prayed until a
decision formed itself in his soul. This decision was, that he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: were contagious for many days before.
This occasioned a vast variety of cases which physicians would have
much more opportunity to remember than I; but some came within
the compass of my observation or hearing, of which I shall name a few.
A certain citizen who had lived safe and untouched till the month of
September, when the weight of the distemper lay more in the city than
it had done before, was mighty cheerful, and something too bold (as I
think it was) in his talk of how secure he was, how cautious he had
been, and how he had never come near any sick body. Says another
citizen, a neighbour of his, to him one day, 'Do not be too confident,
Mr -; it is hard to say who is sick and who is well, for we see men
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: the mechanism of the modern aeroplane and dirigible is somewhat
delicate.
It was for this reason that the possibility of armouring the
airship was discussed seriously, and many interesting experiments
in this field were carried out. At the same time it was decided
that the armouring should be effected upon lines analogous to
that prevailing in warship engineering. The craft should not
only be provided with defensive but also with aggressive
armament. This decision was not viewed with general approbation.
It was pointed out that questions of weight would arise,
especially in relation to the speed of the machine. Increased
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